Memorial Day Thread of Gratitude

[Socks]

This ignorant patriotism really doesn't need to be here, at least take it to serious discussion.

Excuse me? There is nothing ignorant about it, neither do I consider it blatant patriotism.

[Commander Fuckass]

It's Memorial Day? I thought it was Labor Day.

Labor Day is in September 

[Commander Fuckass]

Excuse me? There is nothing ignorant about it, neither do I consider it blatant patriotism.

36 is too young to know about the country, he's still in 8th grade.

[Title27GT]

Ha, "freedom." To me freedom isn't the "right" to go outside and see flashing billboards and other corporate creations selling me things everywhere I look. It's not the freedom to pick Bad Candidate or Worse Candidate in a fucked up 2-party system of a "democratic republic", to be freely bugged and spied on, to possibly be arrested without warrant and imprisoned without trial. To me freedom isn't living to fulfill imbecilic societal notions of "political correctness" or having revised history forced into my head or corporate media giants telling me every untruth imaginable, all the time.

The only difference between the United States and some other country you think has less "freedom" is that you and most people in this country are so in tune with all the patriotic/nationalistic bullshit that you can't even imagine anything but the idea that the United States couldn't possibly not be the best place in the world.

Oh my sweet god, just because you wear tight jeans and fedoras doesn't mean you're some insanely deep, artistic, all-knowing rebel.

Read that ridiculous and uncalled for first paragraph. You're such a god damn idiot. Stop believing what everyone tells you. Everything you just said sounds straight out of a YouTube video response. OH GOD, BILLBOARDS, YOU POOR BABY. Get used it. You've been arrested without warrant? Nice job.

No one forced you to vote.

[Commander Fuckass]

Oh my sweet god, just because you wear tight jeans and fedoras doesn't mean you're some insanely deep, artistic, all-knowing rebel.

Read that ridiculous and uncalled for first paragraph. You're such a god damn idiot. Stop believing what everyone tells you. Everything you just said sounds straight out of a YouTube video response. OH GOD, BILLBOARDS, YOU POOR BABY. Get used it. You've been arrested without warrant? Nice job.

No one forced you to vote.

Your talking to someone who plays Warhammer with miniature figurines or some shit like that. Of course he's going to post shit like that.

[36chambers]

36 is too young to know about the country, he's still in 8th grade.

I'm in the 10th grade dumbass.

[Socks]

I'm in the 10th grade dumbass.

It does not matter really, age does not mean anything to the state of mind when it's not properly applied.

Also...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G1FvlPakkU[/youtube]

[Daddy]

Also, shut up.  Use serious discussion if you want to debate the validity of a war, socio-economic systems, etc, and let Socks have his thread.

I'm getting tired of locking threads because people feel the need to bitch about everything.


also i'm not defending this war or imperialistic tendencies but you don't need to derail a thread just because you disagree.

[Lotos]

Ha, "freedom." To me freedom isn't the "right" to go outside and see flashing billboards and other corporate creations selling me things everywhere I look. It's not the freedom to pick Bad Candidate or Worse Candidate in a fucked up 2-party system of a "democratic republic", to be freely bugged and spied on, to possibly be arrested without warrant and imprisoned without trial. To me freedom isn't living to fulfill imbecilic societal notions of "political correctness" or having revised history forced into my head or corporate media giants telling me every untruth imaginable, all the time.

The only difference between the United States and some other country you think has less "freedom" is that you and most people in this country are so in tune with all the patriotic/nationalistic bullshit that you can't even imagine anything but the idea that the United States couldn't possibly not be the best place in the world.

England seems to be the same way from my experiences on /b/.

Freedom is not free my friend.

  Beautiful quote.  It makes me think of all the people who aren't coming back from Iraq.  And for oil too.

[Daddy]

England seems to be the same way from my experiences on /b/.

  Beautiful quote.  It makes me think of all the people who aren't coming back from Iraq.  And for oil too.

Reading: do you do it?

Also, shut up.  Use serious discussion if you want to debate the validity of a war, socio-economic systems, etc, and let Socks have his thread.

I'm getting tired of locking threads because people feel the need to bitch about everything.


also i'm not defending this war or imperialistic tendencies but you don't need to derail a thread just because you disagree.

[Socks]

I don't pay attention to nonsense.

In my opinion they have given you the ability to have this choice, but it is yours to make.

[Snorkel]

You know, for all your diatribe of what you view as wrongs within our society and nation you overlooked one little thing. I dare say you are still fine and free to do was you please after posting that comment to the world, a luxury which the majority of people around the world do not enjoy.

Oh come on, do you really believe that? Just because I know you do, I'll painstakingly do math

Let's look at a world map and count all the countries where, most likely, you could "do [what] you please after posting that comment to the world", and then count their populations:

United States 304,162,000
Mexico 108,700,891
Canada 33,273,000
South Africa 43,700,000
United Kingdom 60,587,300
Australia 21,300,000
New Zealand 4,525,000
Iceland 316,000
Sri Lanka 20,010,000
Indonesia 234,693,000
Russia 142,008,000
India 1,132,446,000
Senegal 11,658,000
Rwanda 10,186,000
Algeria 33,333,000
Morocco 33,757,000
Tunisia 10,102,000
Zaire 5,487,000
Democratic Republic of Congo 62,600,000
Liberia 3,386,000
Spain 45,200,737
France 64,473,000
Portugal 10,848,000
Germany 82,210,000
Estonia 1,340,000
Lithuania 3,369,000
Latvia 2,270,000
Belarus 9,689,000
Ukraine 46,372,000
Romania 22,246,000
Croatia 4,453,000
Serbia 10,150,000
Poland 38,518,000
Norway 4,752,000
Sweden 9,196,000
Finland 5,308,000
Italy 59,448,000
Greece 11,216,000
Argentina 40,301,000
Brazil 186,757,000
Chile 16,598,000
Papau New Guinea 6,300,000
South Korea 49,000,000
Japan 127,433,000

I'm sure I've left out quite a few, but these should be the major ones (I also omitted some that I am unsure of the political state of, such as French Guyana and much of Africa)

Now, I'll add up the total population of the "free world."

Total: 3,134,668,891
The total estimated population of the world right now is about 6,700,000,000, which makes the "free world" approximately 46.8% of the world population. While not truly the majority, if you consider that 37% of the "unfree" world could be gained by forcefully impressing glorious American ideals upon China and thus making the "free" world a hearty 83.8%, the United States doesn't seem so special after all, does it? And of course there's still all those annoying thing that make the US really unfree, which I mentioned in my previous post.

This thread is not about the United States, and the more abstract implications of it. It is simply about honoring and remembering those common folks that choose the uncommon path and the ungracious duty to protect and serve without asking anything in return from you.

You're right, they only ask for 35% of my annual income to support a pointless war that has cost $522,758,499,000 over the past few years while things like education have been neglected. In fact, the annual federal expenditure on education is somewhere around $30-40b... just 6.6% of the war expense I quotes above. If you're interested, there's more info about federal war expenses here.

So forgive me but a simple "Thank You" from such a cynic is in order, now get over yourself and some self asserted righteous view. That all flies out the window in such cases, so put it behind and stand besides me as a common American in thanking our true heroes.

I might offer my condolences to a soldier if I met one, but I'm certainly not thanking anyone.

[Socks]

You know, I had a feeling you would actually try to do some ridicules math on that, thanks for missing the point entirely.

Now if you will take your free chosen view and let my thread and it cause be I'd appreciate it.

[wawi]

Nice threads Socks. My uncle just got back from Afghanistan a couple days ago. I wish I could spend tomorrow with him.

[Daddy]

STOP SAYING RIDICULES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Ridiculous GOD I MADE FUN OF THAT TYPO IN THE ANONYMOUS BOARD